Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
AnhartLinkin
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
angelsunchained
Without giving away the totally surprising ending, I will say that I really was turned off by this film until the ending wrapped up everything very clearly. The acting is excellent and the basic plot is unique and very interesting. Too bad in real life, those tragic human beings slaughtered by the Nazi regime didn't come up with this idea a thousand times over. A comedy about this horrific time of the world is sometimes difficult to deal with. The people involved are not painted in a positive light, yet like I said, the ending makes everything as clear as clear can be. The film can drag at times, but the acting saves it. Not sure if this film will appeal to an overall general audience, because it can be over the top and even distasteful. I would rate the ending one of the most surprising and shocking in the history of cinema. Train of Life is the dream to escape the nightmare of the brutally of man. Thought provoking to say the least. 9 out of 10.
charlesdias
This is one of the best humor movies I've ever seen. It's really hard to mix a war plot with nice fine humor. Some try it but the result is very bad. This movie is an exception, it's great and funny.I think the soul of this movies is it near naive humor. There is no that boring kind of "intelligent and cool humor for intelligent and cool people". It's plain humor works fine.But don't think this movie is just humor because it has a humanitarian story bellow the humorous cover that touches the heart. It's about human beings doing their best to escape from death.The soundtrack of this movie is great. I love the music, it's fabulous.It's a great movie worth of seeing.
macias-5
I am sick when I see such scenario -- Nazis bad, Bolsheviks good. Riiiiight -- it looks like in Western Europe nobody really cares that people were murdered in Soviet Union, and not in one or two death camps. There were established whole "lands" of death camps.Nobody would survive "the escape", because people coming from German side were treated as spies (even prisoners of war). I realize that the move is a fiction, but it should not insult the memory of the people who died in Soviet Union.Soviet reality ordeal still waits for its director brave enough to make a movie showing that Stalin, Trocki, Kamieniew, Dzierzynski, etc. were not just politicians, but insane monsters beyond imagination. That there were a lot of Jews in Soviet authorities but also Jews were victims (for example Anti-Fascist Front Leaders, murdered on an order by Stalin).There is well known story about two trains full of Jews meeting in Brzesc (German-Soviet border in 1939). One train was going from Germany to Soviet Union, the second from the Soviet Union to Germany. And Jews from both trains were escaping and both were laughing of stupidity of the others.The plot was easy to fix -- train going to Switzerland instead of Soviet Union, believable, more historically accurate... So another attempt of Soviet glorification or just a stupidity of the director?
eetstatik
Totally anti-semetic. The Jews in the village are seen as being idiots, liars, and squabblers. The comedy for the most part is dull, the directing rather unclever, the emotions nil, the character development less, and worst of all it even seems to harbor, intentional or not, resentment against Jews, even though it was written and directed by a Jew: as i have already mentioned the Jews are seen as children,but the exploration of guilt of pretending to be the enemy is barely, almost tacked on really, explored. At one point a character even says "Our Nazis are better than the other Nazis. Our Nazis are beautiful." It might have been the writer/director realized how anti-semetic the script was and threw in some heavy handed symbolism to fix it, but failed. But the worst thing isn't the movie, but the fans. When you dislike a movie like this they tend to label you as corporate shill, as uneducated about film, as falling prey to Life Is Beautiful and its "fake," emotions. Sad you can't point out how bad a movie is when it's lesser known or underground, because so many nowadays fall pray to the belief is it's less known, it's somehow better. I have news for you, that's practically the same mentality of thinking the bigger the budget the better the script. They are both equally shallow, just the former philosophy is harder to criticize because everyone wants to be a "rebel" and be underground. So say what you want about Schindler's List or Life Is Beautiful, you don't have to love them, just don't be think this is a masterpiece in comparison.
